Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 17
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| "On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
| reported by merchants in special account status 1/ as of 4/26/02
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| (In Contracts)
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| | | Open Futures
| | Call Cotton Based New York | Contracts - New York
| | | Cotton Exchange
|Futures |-------------------------------------------|----------------------
| | Unfixed | Change | Unfixed | Change | At | Change
|Based | Call | From | Call | From | Close | From
| | Sales | Prev. | Purchs. | Prev. | | Prev.
|On: | | Week | | Week | 4/26/02 | Week
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|May '02 56 -458 326 -678* 54 -4,647
|July '02 5,622 -258* 4,106 930* 38,636 3,677
|October '02 1,892 -116 249 5 1,132 277
|December '02 4,928 408 4,121 125* 21,093 1,195
|March '03 3,404 232* 244 0 2,725 627
|May '03 2,848 426 95 0 1,729 157
|July '03 3,583 789* 390 0 913 66
|October '03 859 32 0 0 47 6
|December '03 976 316* 0 0 246 -10
|May '04 0 0 5 5 93 0
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| Totals: 24,168 1,371* 9,536 387* 66,668 1,348
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|1/ Merchants with futures positions of 50 or more contracts in one future.
|*Changes from the previous week are based on revised data for last week.
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|This report is published by the Commission's Division of Economic Analysis.
|If you have any questions concerning this report, call Vincent G. Varisano,
|Industry Economist, Eastern Region at (646) 746-9775.
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|Released after 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time
|5/2/02
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